I'm guessing yes and no. LT won't have the kind of "random missions" you described, because every mission is a real request by a real NPC who has his own agenda. That means that the variety of missions is directly dependent on the degree of interactivity that the world provides. So in that sense I d...

With the subject of delegation coming up this past December, I started thinking about the concept of "fairness" when it comes to contracts and compensation. Josh touched on this in his dev logs, but I wonder if there will/should be some kind of negotiation mechanic. For example, if the player posts ...

It's not necessarily illogical, Josh said he had a version that didn't give the player any graphics at all, he ran it on a machine that didn't have adequate graphics hardware if I recall.

That said I do think any game should be fun right from the get-go. If I have to shovel through hours of tedium just to get to the good bits I'm inclined not to play the game at all, and I think a lot of people feel the same way.

... but after reading a bit more, I don't see much improvement other than graphical manipulation (which, as you point out, can be a curse if it is too constrained). You know, this is exactly the thing that I immediately started worrying about when you mentioned the in-game data editor in your dev l...

Hello! Perhaps this point has been implicitly made already, but I feel compelled to point out that ship classes, traditionally, are not about size as such , they're about roles. A battleship is big and scary, but that's its job description. Its bulk is merely a function of its role. A more interesti...